Greece has rescued hundreds of migrants off its southern islands of Gavdos and Crete in five separate incidents since Friday, ...

Wind and dry conditions raise the risk that blazes might restart in areas of the island where they had already been contained ...

Crete is ready to welcome tourists as normal following last week’s wildfire, which prompted the evacuation of around 1,500 ...

The escalating migration crisis in Crete was dramatically underscored Sunday morning as a group of migrants arrived directly ...

ATHENS (Reuters) -Firefighters were battling a wildfire on the Greek island of Evia on Saturday which was burning forests and ...

Firefighters struggled to gain control over a massive wildfire burning on the Greek island of Crete, as powerful winds fanned ...

In 1941, Nikos Xylouris was four years old when he witnessed German paratroopers, the Fallschirmjäger, descending upon his ...

Around 3,000 Crete residents have been evacuated and put up in temporary shelters, and people remaining in their homes have ...

A fast-moving wildfire whipped by gale-force winds burned through the night and into Thursday on Greece’s southern island of ...

Firefighters are struggling to bring a major wildfire on Greece’s southern island of Crete under control, hampered by gale ...

Most of those fleeing the blaze were tourists. Firefighters struggled against heavy winds to bring the flames under control.

At least 5,000 tourists were forced to evacuate parts of Crete as a massive wildfire scorched forests and olive groves on the ...